Avainsana: biodiversity
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Socialization of forests – can land, water, air and nature be owned? If so who?
An employee of the forest giant Stora Enso probably committed a gross nature conservation crime when he drove a heavy forestry machine several times over a stream inhabited by extremely rare and endangered river pearl mussels. Apparently thousands of mussels, ”raakkus” in Finnsh, died. A couple of years ago, the necessary law on gross nature…
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Biodiversity
22 nd May the international UN Biodiversity Day was celebrated. Biodiversity means the diversity of nature. It can be measured as genes, species or different biotopes and ecosystems. Creator or Nature, however you think of it, has created an incredibly diverse and colorful patchwork of ecosystems full of different species. The biosphere covers the entire…
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Suomenlinna – an oasis of biodiversity in the center of Helsinki – how the ecological intermediate disturbance hypothesis can be seen in the nature of Suomenlinna fortress islands
Can man and nature live and flourish side by side? Can human activity greatly benefit nature? The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) assumes that species richness and diversity at the local scale are at their peak when disturbance is of intermediate intensity (Grime, 1973; Horn, 1975; Connell, 1978). This is how human activity often increases the…
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A green and living eco-city – what will the ecological cities of the 2030s look like?
What will the ecological cities of the future look like? An ecological city is as diverse as possible, green and takes lessons and models from nature. An ecological city is based entirely on renewable energy and the use of electricity in transport. A city is an ecosystem, and when it functions as much as possible…
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Global village, a bit fly and diversity – systems and synergy
When two things interact with each other, a system is created. The system of two components is the simplest possible system, for example the Earth and the Moon form a system where they affect each other with their attraction. Compared to this, our entire Solar System is a very complex system with millions of components.…
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This summer’s adventure in the arctic region – thoughts from a trip in arctic Fennoscandia
This summer I made an exciting trip through Arctic Fennoscandia. I spent 8 days adventuring in the northernmost parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway in Lapland. My adventure in the Arctic began in Vantaa, where I boarded the night train to Rovaniemi. I arrived in Rovaniemi the next morning and from there I continued to…
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Planetary boundaries and doughnuts
In 2009, the Stockholm Resilience Center presented Johan Rocksröm’s model of planetary boundaries. It has 9 different indicators that measure almost all environmental problems. The only things that there are no are light pollution, noise, radiation and comfort and aesthetics. Planetary boundaries are: freshwater use, land use (including desertification, deforestation, etc.), biodiversity, climate change, fine…
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The cruel reality of meat production – there is no such thing as a happy chicken or a climate-friendly pig
The biggest environmental act you can do is to become a vegetarian, preferably a Vegan. Did you know that more than 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from meat production? This is more than all the traffic in the world combined. A kilo of beef has up to 50 times more climate emissions than…
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The Montreal Biodiversity Convention paints concrete goals – one third of the Earth’s surface to be protected
At the United Nations’ Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, they managed to agree on global goals for the protection of biodiversity. Montreal was a continuation of the meeting in Kunming, China, which I wrote about earlier. The agreement and its goals are a similar and equally significant institution as the Paris climate agreement, and its numerically…
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Climate change today and the path from extreme disaster to sustainable balance
It finally came to this because of humanity’s greed: A couple of friends in India said that there has been no monsoon for three years and half of the palm leaves have turned yellow and died. A friend in Italy says that local people don’t go out there at all because of the scorching heat.…
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Systems thinking in environmental sciences – nothing is isolated in nature
Systems thinking is all about relationships, how the parts together affect the whole and trends, changes and problems. By analyzing these, we find solutions. People often want to simplify things, but in reality nature is very complex. Systems thinking is very important in environmental science. First of all, natural systems are very complex in their…
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Methane ice clathrates and climate, the powder keg of the oceans
There are several feedbacks related to climate change that can either slow down or accelerate global warming. Climate change affects these and they, in turn, affect climate change. These include, for example, the earth’s albedo, i.e. the reflectivity of snow and ice in particular, which cools the earth by reflecting the sun’s radiation away. Warming…
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Science, economy, consumption and environmental degredation
The development of natural science is the basis for new innovations and the development of technology. The development of technology is basis for economical growth, energy consumption and population growth. The biggest single factor in economical growth is the development of techonology. All of these, economical growth, energy cosumption, population growth and the development of…
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